Infant’s death not due to spat: Report
REPORT SAID THERE WAS RIVALRY BETWEEN THE TWO DOCTORS, WHICH LED TO THE BICKERING ON THE OPERATION TABLE
A government panel has ruled out death of any newborn due to a verbal duel between two doctors in the operation theatre of a Jodhpur hospital, a video of which went viral on social media last week. The panel also found that the spat between two senior government doctors was due to professional rivalry.
The panel submitted its report in the Rajasthan HC Tuesday.
Taking suo motu cognizance of the video purportedly shot in the operation theatre of governmentrun Umaid Hospital on August 29, the court on August 30 had sought a report from the panel. The video showed the two doctors quarrelling and using fowl language.
It triggered an allegation that a woman lost her newborn because of the ugly verbal duel in the operation theatre.
The report has ruled this out. “There was rivalry between the two doctors, which led to the bickering on the operation table,” said Rajasthan’s additional advocate general SK Garg, who submitted the report in the HC on Monday.
Attired in green medical overalls, face masks and gloves, gynaceologist Ashok Naniwal and anaesthesist Mathura Lal Tak were seen shouting at each other in the video shot on a mobile phone by a resident doctor of the anaesthesia department. The probe panel did not recommend any action against the resident doctor but the court warned her against using mobile phone in the operation theatre.
The government panel comprised additional district collector Manaram Patel, additional principal of Dr SN Medical College Dr Reeta Meena, Umaid Hospital superintendent Dr Ranjana Desai and Jodhpur metropolitan’s chief judicial magistrate Amar Verma.
After the court took the report on record, amicus curie MS Singhvi requested it to take groundrealitiesof UmaidHospital, Mahatma Gandhi Hospital and Mathura Das Mathur Hospital – into account before taking action .
A division bench of justices Gopal Krishna Vyas and Manoj Kumar Garg formed two panels, one for Umaid Hospital and the other for MG Hospital and MDM Hospital, for a comprehensive report on the medical facilities at these hospitals. The court has sought these reports by September 8.